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Dataforge

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Hi to all members,
I am offering my services as a data specialist to help anyone running an e-commerce store, a distribution setup, or a retail business who is drowning in messy Excel sheets or raw supplier files.
If you are losing hours manually copy-pasting, cleaning up supplier text dumps, or constantly dealing with validation errors when uploading to marketplaces, I can take that off your hands.
To do this efficiently, I use a custom-built, 11-layer processing engine that I developed locally. I don't sit and fix files row-by-row in Excel; instead, I feed your messy source data into my system to parse, normalize, and format it automatically at scale.
How my setup works and what it does for your files:
  • Deep Data Cleaning: It fixes broken text encoding, repairs spelling errors, expands common shorthand abbreviations, and standardizes units of measurement automatically.
  • Smart Attribute Extraction: If your data is unstructured (e.g., a messy line like "samsng 55in tv blk"), the system automatically strips out and isolates the brand, color, size, and material into separate, clean columns.
  • Bilingual Mapping: It natively handles both English and Afrikaans text, meaning it recognizes and processes local column headers like "Prys" or mixed-language descriptions without tripping up.
  • Categorization & Deduplication: It maps products into deep, precise hierarchical categories so they index properly on websites. It also runs high-speed fuzzy matching to find and flag duplicate listings, even if they are worded completely differently.
  • Price Auditing (Delta Reports): If you feed it a new monthly supplier list alongside an old one, it instantly generates a differential report showing you exactly what changed—highlighting new items, discontinued stock, and precise price increases.
What you get back:
I deliver clean, fully structured multi-sheet Excel files or CSVs formatted exactly to your requirements. I can export your data natively for direct, error-free bulk uploads into:
  • Takealot (matching their strict template rules)
  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • Amazon Seller Central
  • Clean, standardized layouts for local ERP systems
Data Privacy:
Because I know commercial data is highly sensitive, everything is processed 100% offline on my isolated local workstation. I do not use cloud-based tools or external web APIs. Your supplier details, margins, and catalog data never leave my physical machine, making the process completely secure and POPIA compliant.
Proven Performance:
The system is fully tested and stable. Recent data runs I've processed include a 25,000-row fashion catalog (applying over 46,000 automatic corrections) and a massive 540,000-row mixed inventory feed handled entirely without system lag.
If you have a data nightmare you need cleared out, drop me a PM with an idea of your row count and your target platform. We can set up a secure mail channel to look at a small sample snippet, and I'll show you what the output looks like before we take on the full job.
 
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